McNett Molly

Child of These Tears (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the early years of the eighteenth century, the settlers living in the hamlet of Hartfield Falls in English America face the looming threat posed by historical and political forces beyond their control. Queen Anne's War has brought the French and their Native American allies into deadly proximity to New England's colonists.

On one fateful day in the depth of winter, young Constance Baker is taken captive in a bloody raid on Hartfield Falls and marched north to Canadaa march she barely survives. Soon her destiny becomes bound up in a struggle between her English parents, the Mohawk tribe into which she has been adopted, and a French Jesuit priest, who reluctantly takes on her spiritual direction. In this crucible of loss and suffering, of clashing faiths and sensibilitieswhere sacrifices are sometimes demanded and sometimes freely givenall will be irrevocably changed.

In a manner reminiscent of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Child of These Tears is told in polyphonic form, through a variety of narrative genrescaptivity tale, commonplace book, letters, and journals. The result is a searing, unforgettable novel that explores the nature of memory, belonging, redemption, and grace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Slant Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639822041
• Artikelnr.: 75191650

Autorenporträt

Molly McNett teaches writing at Northern Illinois University. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and many journals, as well as in a collection of stories, One Dog Happy. She lives on a farm near Oregon, Illinois.